Instant insight in hard to maintain code Posted August 26, 2015 by by Kjell Usually I would not write about commercial software however today someone gave me this link of a great online service that use a very smart data visualization technique to give you direct insight in the parts of your source base that are more difficult to maintain. We have blogged before that controlling your metrics is…
How abstraction can reduce complexity, and increase testability and maintainability Posted August 18, 2015 by by Kjell When I was a junior developer I had no clue what I was doing and I had no one above me that guided me in the right direction. All I had was a lot of confidence (that I was the best software developer in the world) and a lot of good intentions. Since one of…
GhostDoc Posted June 14, 2015 by by Kjell If you are using StyleCop then GhostDoc is a tool you can’t do without. GhostDoc will help you document your C# code. GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin that runs from the editor in Visual Studio. It creates skeleton documentation, and even attempts to guess the documentation based on the name of your methods. If you…
StyleCop Posted June 14, 2015 by by Kjell StyleCop is an extremely useful Visual Studio plugin that helps you validate your style against a set of predefined rules. It runs straight from the editor and shows errors and warnings in your error list. The big benefits of using this tool become clear in projects with larger team sizes. All developers will code in…